Baby Rokko: The Quickest Birth!

Baby Roko was born on Friday and even as I write this - a week later, I can still feel the energy of the birth, the smell of the birthing suite and the adrenalin that filled the room.

We were texting back and forth with Belinda reassuring me that she still had a few hours up her sleeve despite her contractions beginning hours earlier.  Given this was Belinda’s fourth baby, I figured she was definitely the best judge. Nonetheless, I dropped my kids off to various friends’ houses so that I was prepared. Barely an hour passed when they texted about heading to the hospital. I knew when things went quiet that things had progressed, and I would need all the green lights on my 45 minute drive to the hospital to make it. I prayed in the car for the baby to wait. The Royal Women’s has multiple underground levels of parking and typically at this moment of panic, there were no free car spaces in sight. With my eye on the clock, I wedged myself between a car and a post in what looked more like a motorbike space. I ran through the corridors, madly shouting at the receptionist “Room 15?!”, thinking if I hear a baby crying, I’m in serious trouble.

The doors swung open and I knelt down just in time to see Belinda and Steve’s baby boy making his way to this side of Earth. Belinda was so calm and content - one minute later their beautiful son was born. With the cord attached, the midwife gently cleaned the amniotic sac that was on his head.

Belinda cut the cord after it had stopped pulsating, cuddling her precious boy. Steve couldn’t stop the tears and I could see how proud he was.

Belinda’s body knew what do to, and her baby attached on the breast without much interference from the midwives. She managed to crack jokes right after the birth with Steve and the midwives, making everyone laugh in the room. She wouldn’t like me to say this, but I reckon she could easily go for number five…

Belinda is a proud owner of fashion and textile brand Sunday the Label @sundaythelabel.